Laurel Nevans wrote:
>>Well, excuse me. I sense a slam there as you mention
>> "designers." I went through months of Web Design school where I
> was taught to use ALT and not TITLE ... and I was taught using
> the NN4.x browser where ALT is also displayed as a "tool tip." My
> teachers then have misled a lot of students along the way if this
> is the case.
>> I may be wrong here, but isn't TITLE a fairly NEW element? I
> don't think it was around, or widely implemented by the browsers
> when the WAI guidelines were first written. (Didn't the TITLE
> tag come out w/ HTML 4? I don't remember seeing the TITLE tag in
> HTML 3.2 books...)
TITLE as a global attribute[0] is indeed new with HTML 4, so there's
nothing wrong with not having heard of it.
But TITLE is not a replacement for ALT's old behaviour. ALT is as it
always was - and ALT is *not* TITLE. AIUI, TITLE was actually created
as something that those who misused ALT could channel their energies
into :o)
[0] Meaning an attribute that can be used on *any* element
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Mark Gallagher
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